Carriage-spring



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FRED SOHELP, JR., OF BALLWIN, MISSOURI.

CARRlAGE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION formng' part of Letters Patent No. 245,977, dated August 23, 1881.

Application filed January 29, 1881.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED SOHELP, Jr., of Ballwin, St. Louis county, Missouri, have made a new and useful lmprorement in Carriage- Springs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being` had to the anncxed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a bottom view, in perspective, ofa gear havingthe improved Springs; Fig; 2, a view, in perspective, ot'theimproved spring, and Fig. 3,21 side eleva tion of the central spring and showing the cross-Springs in section.

The same letters denote the same parts.

The present improvement is more especially adapted to side-bar wagons and carriages.

It consists, mainly, in t\\'o springs n'hosc outer ends are connected respecti vely, with the side bars, and whose inner' ends lap and are attached to the carriage-body, the action of the cross-splings being' aided and modified by a central spring which is attached to the lapping ends of the cross-Springs and also to the carriage-body, as seen in the drawings, where- A represents a carriage-gear having' the springs in question.

B B represent the nsual side bars.

O O' represent springs connected by means of clips c c' with the side bars, B B, and Whose inner ends lap, (one end being above the other end,) and are attached to the carriage-body D, the connections with the latter being by means of the clips E E' respectively, the clip E being sufeiently long to receive the end of the other spring, C', and so that the spring O' shall not in its action bear upon the clip E.

F represents a central spring. At its upper part or ends it is connected With the earriagebody D, and at its lower part with the lapped ends of the Springs O G'. To connect it With (No model.)

the Springs O C' the spring F has what may be termed a clipconpling, G, which is connected with the spring F by a bolt, g, or otherwise, and with the springs O O' by means of the eyes g' gi' respectively. The coupling G serves both to connect the springs F U O' and also to enable the spring F to act as an equalizer, and so that When the carriage is unevenly loaded the Springs U O' Will yield evenly. The spring F also increases the elasticity of the construction. The'coupling G is useful as an equalizer of the Springs O G', irrespective of the spring F.

The part lettered D in the dra-Wing may be considered the carriage-body,77 or a cross plate or bar beneath the body. The springs O (J', lapping, as described, and in combination with the conpling G, are, even in the form of stiffrods, usefulin equalizing a carriage-body.

I claim- 1. The combination of the side bars, B B, springs O C', body D, spring F, and cnupling G, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the Springs O O, coupling G, and spring F, said springs O O' at their outer ends being attached to or supported by the carriage-gea-r, and their inner ends lapping and being connected with the carriagebody.

3. The combination, in acarriage-gear, of the lapping Springs O O' and the coupling G, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the side bars, B B, Springs O C', body D, clips E Ef, spring F, and coupling G, snbstantially as described.

'FRED SGHELP, JR.

Witnesses:

OHAs. D. MooDY, SAML. S. BoYD. 

